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2011 MFC - Cover

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Celebrating Diversity
“Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.”
– William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
We are each unique. Yet we are all one. The great truths of the universe are often not captured in simple one-sided statements. More often than not, it takes the complexity of dualistic pairs of opposites to truly encompass the whole. Think: night and day. Yin and yang. Unity and diversity. We cannot understand the whole without understanding its opposite sides. And so it is with faith. We only fully understand ourselves by learning to embrace others.
“While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.”
– Maya Angelou
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January
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Floating Torii at Itsukushima
cp Photography
“The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher.” – Asian Proverb
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February

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Semazens Turning
Sharifa Donna Webb sharifasart@gmail.com
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” – Rumi
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February Inset
Muslim Woman
Brian Harris www.brianharrisphotography.net |
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March

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Namaste
Fotosearch
Bahai: “The holy Manifestations of God were sent down to make visible the oneness of humanity.”
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April

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Little Girls in Church
Franky De Meyer
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May
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The Jonang School Student Monks
beemore
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May Inset
Two Nuns Laughing
Brian Harris
www.brianharrisphotography.net |
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June

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POW-WOW Dancer
lessrob
First Nations: “Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
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July


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photosindia
Getty Images
Hinduism: “The whole universe is our family.”
July Inset
Three Girls
Sylvia Prochownik sylviatheend@yahoo.com
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August

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Muslim Children
Distinctive Images
Islam: “No one of you is a believer until he desires for others what he desires for himself."
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September

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African Tribal Dance
Michel Denijs
“Anticipate the good so that you may enjoy it.”
— African Proverb
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October

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Rockyview Hutterite Colony
George Webber www.georgewebber.ca
Ancient Proverb: “Taking the first step with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed I entered Paradise.”
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November


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Sikh Friends
Gurumustuk Singh Khalsa www.mrsikhnet.com
Sikhism: “No one is my enemy, and no one is a stranger. I am a friend to all.”
November Insert
Amrit (2010)
Bhupinder Singh www.bhupi.ca
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December

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Gazing at the Chanukah Lights
Howard Sandler Photography
Judaism: "Such is the way of creation: first comes darkness, then light."
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